david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: > >> >> Excuse my skull bone density... not sure I follow this. Not sure I >> see how `chop' does anything to `\' >> >> [...] >> > > assume your program is named scan.pl, what happen is you call it: > > scan.pl '\'
It will wait for input since files are required. So if you supply files: scan.pl '\' files Trailing \ in regex m/\/ at /home/reader/scripts/perl/hdrscn1 line 22, <> line 1 > your script always assume user will be entering a valid reg to use. i am > suggest that you should not trust the user on that. there is a good chance > that your user will not supply a valid reg. in that case, your program will > crash. you should trap that with the eval{} or with quote your reg before Won't is still quite even with the eval, in the above case? > passing it to Perl Can you give an example of this? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]